Re: Action requested - Application Softblock implemented | Issue report ID341057

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Seiko Ishida (MP Tech Consulting LLC) <
v-seishi(at)microsoft(dot)com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Thank you for all your responses to my inquiry.
> We are aware that this application version 8.2.x is pretty old and
> PostgreSQL will stop releasing updates for the 8.2.X in December 2011.
> *http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/release-8-2-22.html*<http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/release-8-2-22.html>
>
> We also confirmed this installation issue was addressed in the latest
> version of the installer. (8.3.x and 8.4.x) However, we would like to warn
> endusers who might be affected by this issue trying to install 8.2.x
> versions on Windows8, and to direct them to install the latest version. You
> provided the following URL, but better yet is there a download site for the
> newer version we can direct endusers to?
>
> *http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_Release_Support_Policy*<http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_Release_Support_Policy>
>
>
> The dialog box presented to users will look something like this.
>
>
> Would this download site be a good URL for that?
> *http://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-training/pgdownload*<http://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-training/pgdownload>
>

That's not a PostgreSQL community web site, so it wouldn't be appropriate to
send people there, I think. However, you could direct them to the
PostgreSQL download page:

http://www.postgresql.org/download/

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Robert Haas
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